Normal.dot Opens (Office XP)

At my office, we have just made a server change and a login software change (from Novell) and now, when Word opens, it is also opening up my normal.dot (which is a specially-created one from our system, rather than Word's automatic normal.dot). Any ideas as to why this is happening? Thanks.

Re: Normal.dot Opens (Office XP)

Select Tools | Options..., and activate the File Locations tab.
Note the Startup path. Word will open all documents and templates in this path.
- Is it equal to either the User Templates path or the Workgroup Templates path?
- Does the startup path contain a Normal.dot file?